Disqus
-We will now investigate what it takes to run N800 software on 770 hardware. We will post the details and ask you to solve problems with us, if possible, as we go on. Expect to hear from us through maemo and other sources. I do not yet exactly how we gonna do this all. I’m at the Heathrow airport waiting form my flight back to Finland, and we have not had a chance to figure this out fully yet. However, the team is already working on this.
-The goal is to provide an engineering release of those parts of the software that can be made to work. I do not believe we will make an official "consumer version" of the software for 770. But having a release working on 770 would allow developers and hackers to continue working on 770 and bridge the gap between 770 and N800.
-Once we’ve done the release we want to get more feedback from you about where to go from there. Unfortunately I do not have an estimate of when such release would be ready. But we are working on it now.
-Should we find it impossible to have N800 software even partially run on 770, you will see the details of our attempt.Some of the challenges encountered so far
-WLAN configuration has changed quite a bit.
-DSP (770 is OMAP 1710 and N800 is OMAP 2420) is different. DSP code is developed by various parties and we do not have a full control over it. We need to figure out if we can support DSP (codecs and stuff …)
-Browser is licensed separately for both platforms and we do not have a cross-platform version. We do not own the browser code.
-We have several commercial components that are licensed for N800 only. Should we make them available for 770, you or Nokia must pay. How do we arrange that is not clear at the moment.
-Some new components require more computing power than 770 offers, and they run slow even on N800. I fear making them work on 770 will be very challenging.But as I said, let’s try now. Thank you for your feedback!
Source: Ari Jaaksi’s Blog
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Stefan Constantinescu
Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.
